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You don’t like the font? The text is way too small?

Then go fix it in your browser’s preferences!

Yes, that means most of you get Times New Roman ❶ but I really think we should question our role as web designers of documents.

As John Allsopp put it in 2000, in A Dao of Web Design:

Use style sheets properly, to suggest the appearance of a page, not to control the appearance of a page.

Zoom in, change the font size, pick a font ❷: I want this site to adapt.

The highlight colour automatically changes with the Japanese microseasons ❸.

  1. For fonts with tiny lowercase letters I’m cheating a bit. In Times they’re 45% of the size, so I lift them to 50%. ↩︎
  2. Can’t find the setting? ↩︎
  3. Each article page gets their colour assigned the date they are published. ↩︎